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All about class.
*important caveat that said TT job was secured via an internal hire where two other grads of the same school…
Excellent questions! Re question 6, I have actually already invented a new punctuation mark. I can’t type it here, as…
29. Should competitive examination questions obey Betteridge’s Law?
It’s likely that Notre Dame will return to a policy of requiring GREs next year (this year they’re officially optional…
Would love to see what a successful answer (in the view of the All Souls’ examiners) looks like.
That list of questions has a beauty to it, I swear.
Under capitalism, this is exactly what compensatory justice demands. Affirmative action, in its original conception was also a version of this–although not as precise in identifying the injured parties–until the super-legislature turned it into diversity blather in 1978. Next year, the super-legislature will also put the "diversity" rationale to rest.
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